This was was not about the USA preserving its boundaries, it was about the Canadians stopping the US from annexing Upper Canada (Ontario). The reason the war is mostly forgotten is because our mission was thwarted (we lost to Canada). It is interesting how we get our history reinterpreted over time.

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